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No one else would walk up the hill instead of riding in the empty wagon. The descent now becoming easier Ben whipped up his horse, and they soon jolted past Peter and his team. "There's been a sight o' deaths lately in the village," he resumed cheerfully, having once broken the silence. "I dunno as I can ever call to mind so many. The bell's forever agoin'. It's downright mournful."
The inspiration, by the way, had come from Cynthia. "Er Ephraim, how'd you like to, be postmaster? H-haven't any objections to that kind of a job, hev you?" "Why no," said Ephraim. "We hain't agoin' to hev a post-office at Coniston air we?" "H-how'd you like to be postmaster at Brampton?" demanded Jethro, abruptly. Ephraim dropped the trace he was shaving. "Postmaster at Brampton!" he exclaimed.
"That doesn't make any difference," announced Winfield, in high spirits, "I'm agoin' to the wedding and I'm a-goin' to kiss the bride, if you'll let me." Ruth smothered a laugh. "You may, if you want to, and I won't be jealous. Isn't that sweet of me?" "You're always sweet, dear. Is this the abode of the parson?"
"Ye hain't ben drinkin', hev ye?" To this Bacon only replied by a dignified stare and turned in silence to the table. "Which you agoin' to write first," said Droop, considerately dropping the question he had raised. "The bill of sale." "All right. I'd like to have ye put the one about the patent real strong. I don't want to fail on the fust try, you know."
In the pressure of the present emergency, the poor man appeared to have forgotten the insults which Abner had heaped upon him a few days before, and Abner himself, who was in high good humor, and really felt almost sorry for the proud man before him, replied: "Sartin, Sartin. I'll git em aout, but what's the peeanner agoin fer?"
"Sic um, Touser, sic um! Where is he, boy?" Up the stairs went Copernicus two steps at a time. He dashed into the anteroom, pale and breathless. "Lie down on the floor!" he shouted. "Lie down or ye'll get throwed down. I'm agoin' to start her!" By this time he had opened the engine-room door. The two women promptly lay flat on their backs on the carpet.
Caleb came to her after dinner, with a strange, defiant air. "I want a clean dicky, mother; I'm agoin'," said he. And Deborah got out the old man's Sunday clothes for him without a word. She even brushed his hair with hard, careful strokes, and helped him on with his great-coat; but she never said a word about Rebecca and her baby's funeral.
The boy paused and lifted one hand as though taking an oath. "I'm a-tellin' you-all the truth.... But I didn't shoot them shoots this mornin'. I hain't no truce-buster. I gives ye my hand on hit.... Ef them dawgs comes hyar, they'll find me hyar, an' ef they hain't liars, they'll go right on by hyar. I don't 'low ter run away, an' I don't 'low ter hide out. I'm agoin' ter stay right hyar.
"I understand all that; but it's not safe for us, and it's courting death for Ashbow. Why don't he keep Zane here until you can spare more than three Indians to go with him? These bordermen can't be stopped. You don't know them, because you're new in this part of the country." "I've been here as long as you, an' agoin' some, too, I reckon," replied Legget complacently.
When he joined the major in the cornfield he said, with a touch of anger: "Well, you got the gun. Remember that. If he comes for me, I hain't got a blame thing!" "Shucks!" answered the major. "He ain't agoin' t' come for yeh." The two then began a wary journey through the corn. One by one the long aisles between the rows appeared.
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